Ada Ferrer

Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History

Education

University of Michigan, PhD 1995

Areas of Research/Interest

Cuba; comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution

Fellowships/Honors

2018 Guggenheim Fellowship; Dorothy Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library; 2015 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Race, and Resistance; the 2015 Frederich Katz Prize for the best book in Latin American History from the American Historical Association, the 2015 Wesley-Logan Prize for the best book in African Diaspora history from the AHA , and the 2015 James Rawley Prize also from the AHA for the best book in Atlantic World History; the 2015 Haiti Illumination Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association; Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in European and World History. John Hope Franklin Prize (Law and Society Association) for the Best Article on Race and Racism, 2013. Berkshire Conference Article Prize, 2013. Paul Vanderwood Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2013. American Council of Learned Societes/NEH/SSRC Fellowship in Area Studies, 2011-2012, Berkshire Book Prize for Insurgent Cuba (for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history), Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2003-2004, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2000-2001

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

"The Archive and the Atlantic's Haitian Revolution," in Doris Lorraine Garraway, ed., Tree of Liberty: Atlantic Legacies of the Haitian Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008.)